Thursday, 30 August 2012

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

I want to ask the questions, said the student.

An interesting video, I like its guerilla production value, it focuses on its message and does it well, using the materials at hand.

Teachers must never wait until they have the tools they think they need.

Do what you can now, with whatever you have now.


Warsaw Summer School 2012 curated list

This list changes. It is not exhaustive. That's what Google is for.

These are my top tools:
http://prezi.com/
Save time, search for a prezi presentation someone else has started, make a copy, fix it/finish it/adapt it to your needs. No point re-inventing the wheel.

http://www.frse.org.pl/
Get involved with a community of teachers to organize multinational projects.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TEFL/
Reddit divides its content into subreddits. I recommend you search only within subreddits in your area of interest.

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
This is a way to make QR codes for free. I am currently experimenting with homework assignments using QR codes and even class-based use for cheap augmented reality lessons.

These are some of the tools I use:

http://www.facebook.com
You need to make it easy for students and teachers to find you. If you don't have the time to curate a your profile I recommend you don't have one at all.
http://www.linkedin.com
This is your professional profile and within LinkedIn, there are groups of professionals in ELT around the world who can help you. I belong to three groups: TEFL Institute, English Teachers Anonymous, ESL teachers on languagespirit (pending).

Transparency is increasingly important. Being a teacher has never been more of a public profession than it is today.

These are tools I am looking into:

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/08/the-21-signs-you-are-21st-century.html?goback=%2Emyg

These are tools I find interesting but don't recommend except for digerati:

http://moodle.org/